Cuff button



Patented Dec. i8, i923..

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GEORG KOLLSTEDE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO V. EiBLACKCOIVI- PANY, INCORPORATED, A CORPORATION OP RHODE ISLAND.

CUFF BUTTON.

Application led April 20, 1923. Serial No. 633,434.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE KOLLSTEDE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of RhodeIsland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CuffButtons, of which the following isa specication. Y f

f My invention relates to cuiil buttons of the separable type and moreparticularly to those whose locking or clamping members `are released bymanually operating a member projecting from thelbutton proper.

Heretofore'the operating member was av post slidably mounted in and"projecting from the center of the head whereby orna-k mentation of theface of the button head was prevented.

The essential objects of my invention are to overcome the abovedisadvantage; to prevent rotation of the button in the button hole; toprevent rotary movement of one button member relatively to' the otherwhereby it is possible to employ button heads of oblong design; and toattain these ends in a simple and inexpensive structure.

To the above ends essentially my invention consists in such parts and insuch combinations of parts as fall within the scope of the appendedclaims.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a side elevation partially in central vertical section of mybutton with the parts engaged,

Figure 2, a like showing of the same with the parts released,

Figure 3, a section on line 3 3 of Figure 1,

Figure 4, a bottom plan view of one of the separable socket members,

Figure 5, a section on line 5-5 of Figure 1, and

Figures 6, 7, and 8, detail views of the link member, the operatingmember, and the spring respectively.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

My button comprises two socket or separable members 10 and 11 alike inevery detail, so that a description of one will sufiice for both. Eachof these members'comprises a head 13 consisting of an oblong plate 14engaged by a peripheral rolled over portion 0r flange 15 to the top of atubular tapering `post 17 of rectangular cross section. l'llhe openingor socket 18 formed in the retracted portion of the post is thereforerectangular and oblong in shape. Upon the narrow end of the postis alateral circular flange or shoe 2O having a central iaringportion 2-1and a peripheral bead 22. The uppervportion of the post has alongitudinal slot 24 adjacent the plate 14.

In each socket member is an .operating member comprising an oblong bodyor plate 26 integral with whose end is a laterally projecting downwardlyinclined iinger 27 provided with a terminating knob 29. The

-finger passes through the slot 24. Midway itsV length thevplate 26 haslateral, resilient, inwardly converging fingers 31 preferably curved toconform to the inclined curvature of the post 17 with which it isadapted to contact. The plate 26 is preferably somewhat resilient andone end portion 33 rests upon the upper portion of the post 17 and incontact with the plate 14 where it is fulcrumed or held, with the linger27 normally resting in the bottom of the slot 24.

A flat arched spring 34 whose ends rest on top of the post has anintermediate portion engaging the upper face of the plate 26.

A link member 36 comprises a shank portion 37 rectangular or oblong incross section, and ends heads 38 and connecting necks 39; both heads andnecks being of oblong cross section.

The operation of my button is as follows. One of the socket members, say10, has one of the heads 38 of the link member pressed upwardly into thesocket opening 18 contacting with and elevating the fingers 31 againstthe pressure 0f the spring 34 until space permits the spring to depressthe iingers, enter the neck 39 and embrace the swells of the head 38.The head is now locked by the fingers which are clamped by the headagainst the post wall 17. The head can now be released only by manuallyupwardly tilting, through the finger 27, the plate 26, and therebyelevating the fingers 31 to a plane adjacent the maximum breadth of thehead, and the head is then withdrawable. The socket member 11 may nextbe similarly engaged with the second head.

It will be noted that the rectangular or vflattened shape of the posts17 makes the button nonrotatable in the button hole; also that thetransversely elongated shape of the heads 38 and necks 39 of the linkmember cooperate v'with the elongated sockets 18 to prevent any rotationof the members relaf tivelyto thelink member and to each other;

Y It will be furtherobs'erfvedV that the *surfaces* v prising a tubularinwardly convergingpost provided with a longitudinalslia a head upon theouter end'vof the post, and al flange upon the inner end ofthe post, aresilient tiltableplate supporte-d at one end by thepost, ailinger uponthe other end of the plate extending thronglfll the slot, lockinglingers on the plate engageable with thj'e retracted portion of thepost, a spring in the head enlink adaptedY to enter theretracted end ofthe post to receive the lock-ing lingers;

"2^, In a ou'; button, a socket member comprising a tapering tubularposty provided at its `-inner end with a transversely oblong lsocket andin its outer margin'tvitha longitudinal slot', a head upon the outerendv'of the post, and a .llangeuupon the, inner end of transverselyelongated head upon .the link adapted-,to register in the socket andreceive the locking fingers.

3. In a cuff button, tWo socket members 'comprising' tapering?.transversely oblong rectangular posts provided With lateral slots andforming' With' their openl inner ends blong sockets, heads o'n the outerends of the po'stlanges' on the inner ends of the posts, alinkcomprising a body aiidtransversely oblong heads upon the body adapted toenter ,the sockets, vibrator-y plates inthe posts, gagi-ng the-plate, `alink, and a head on' the,`

operating members on. the plates, locking lingers on theplateslengagieable `With the link heads, and Vsprings inthe r'st mentionedheads engaging the plates.-l v

In testimony vvhereof I have allixed my signature.

i. GiL'oGi-a KoLLsT-EDE.

